blowlamp

English

Etymology

blow +‎ lamp

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Noun

blowlamp (plural blowlamps)

1. A burner that burns a fuel in air to produce a hot flame; a blowtorch
   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four‎^[1], Part One, Chapter 1:

     […] the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.